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No. 179.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1866..

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COMPANY, in Hongkong, is published for general inforınation.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th November, 1866.

W. T. MERCER,

Colonial Secretary.

Account of the average amount of Notes in Circulation at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company, Limited,

for the month ending 31st October, 1866.

NOTES ISSUED,

SPECIE IN RESERVE,.

$650,334. $350,000.

V. KRESSER, Manager.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company, Limited, Hongkong, 5th November, 1866.

I hereby certify that in accordance with my instructions I have this day inspected the Books and Treasure of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company, and found the Specie in Reserve to amount to $350,000.

A. F. ALVES,

Accountant.

Victoria, Hongkong, 19th November, 1866.

No. 141.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of the 30th November, 1866, for the privilege of farming all granite quarries in Hongkong and Kowloon during the Year 1867.

Persons desirous of tendering are directed to call at the Surveyor General's Office to obtain a

form of tender.

proper

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1866.

No. 174.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Great inconvenience having been experienced in consequence of the Owners of Night Passes not changing them at the commencement of each month, notice is hereby given that, after the 1st December next, all Night Passes for exchange must be brought to the Central Police Station, between 2 P.M. and 4 P.M., up to the 7th of each month inclusive.

Any Passes not brought before 4 P.M., the 7th of any month, will be detained three days before exchanged.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1866.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

Several quarterly Occupants, half yearly and yearly Tenants of Tenements Assessed to the Police, Lighting and Water Rates for the Third and Fourth Quarters 1866, having failed as yet to pay the Rates for the current half year, the Owners or Landlords of such Tenements, or the Agents or Attornies for the same are informed that in accordance with the provisions of the XIVth clause of the Ordinance No. 5 of 1863, they are liable for the payment of the Arrears upon cach case in default; and Notice is hereby given that if on or before the 15th of November next, the said Rates in Arrear are not paid at the Treasury, immediate Legal Proceedings will be commenced against all Owners, Landlords, Attornies or Agents, where Tenants shall have failed to pay the Rates Assessed.

Treasury, Hongkong, 20th October, 1866.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial Treasurer.

A supply of Silver Ten Cent Pieces, Bronze Cents and Copper Cash, having been received from the Royal Mint, London--and some 5 Cent and 20 Cent Pieces from the Royal Mint at Hongkong, the Public is informed that 5 Cent, 10 Cent and 20 Cent Pieces, Bronze Cents and Copper Cash, can be obtained at this Treasury in exchange for Bank Notes, Mexican, or Hongkong Dollars, in sums varying from One Dollar to Five hundred more or less Dollars.

Colonial Treasury, Hongkong, 26th October, 1866.

FRED. FORTH, Colonial TreasuICI,